FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 19, 2024
Contact:  educate@hospicefoundation.org

 
Hospice Foundation of America to Offer Five Wishes^® Advance Care Planning Training
 

Washington – Hospice Foundation of America, a leader in end-of-life professional education, announced today that it has partnered with Five Wishes^®, one of the country’s most widely-used advance care planning programs, to offer a comprehensive suite of advance care planning training courses.

All courses are approved for continuing education hours for nurses and social workers. Three 1-hour courses are designed for those who facilitate advance care planning conversations, and a 1.5-hour course is available to those who deliver community education presentations about advance care planning. Courses can be completed at the learner’s convenience and pace from any location with a computer, tablet, or smartphone and an internet connection. Courses include:

Five Wishes^® Advance Care Planning Facilitator Foundations
This foundational Five Wishes^® Advance Care Planning course is designed to enhance your knowledge and skills in facilitating compassionate, effective conversations with individuals, families, and decision-makers in healthcare settings. It provides an introduction and overview of the benefits, components, and characteristics of effective advance care planning, and outlines how to use the Five Wishes® framework to guide conversations and ensure they address what is most important in facilitating high-quality advance care planning. This course prepares learners for more advanced Five Wishes advance care planning courses.

Five Wishes^® Advance Care Planning Facilitator Communication Skills
Building on the Five Wishes^® Advance Care Planning Facilitator Foundations content, this course will enhance your knowledge, ability, and skill in facilitating compassionate, effective conversations with patients, families, and decision-makers. It provides an overview of essential communication and conversation skills, important areas for assessment and exploration, and special considerations for sensitively engaging in advance care planning discussions. You will learn behaviors and practices that demonstrate compassionate, person-centered communication, helping you effectively facilitate values-based end-of-life care discussions.

Five Wishes^® Advance Care Planning for Serious Illness
The third in the Facilitator series, this course provides an overview of key concepts and skills for facilitating effective and sensitive advance care planning and goals of care conversations with people at various stages of serious illness. It outlines considerations to ensure that advance care planning and goals of care conversations empower and equip people to make medically-informed treatment and end-of-life treatment choices consistent with their goals and values, and are likely to be honored.

Five Wishes^® Presenter Foundations
This course is designed to enhance your knowledge, ability, and confidence in providing Five Wishes^® advance care planning educational presentations to communities. It provides an introduction and overview of the definition, benefits, and characteristics of good advance care planning, and explains the importance of community education. In addition, the course describes the Five Wishes approach, and outlines the most important information to cover in delivering a presentation about Five Wishes_^® in your community.
 
Although the facilitator courses are intended to be taken in order, course prerequisites are not required for CE hours. Individuals may register for any single program. View all courses at https://hospicefoundation.org/Education/Five-Wishes-Advance-Care-Planning-Programs.